I’ve had a pretty good run with HTRWW this spring, but last Tuesday, a few things went wrong. A perfect storm, if you will. The still-buggy result is this Lost Episode—scheduled to go live last Wednesday, offered now (along with stages 5 through 9) because it’s a rest day and you’ve got nothing to do until Tour of California this evening.

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How The Race Was Won – Giro d'Italia 2013 – Stages 5-9 They certainly have end-loaded this year’s Giro. After nine days (don’t forget to check out stages 1 through 4), lots of probing GC moves, lots of rain, lots of heads-up racing—which is what I think you want out of the early going in a Grand Tour. I could perhaps stand...

How The Race Was Won – Giro d'Italia 2013 – Stages 10-15 The penultimate week of the race! Yes, you were probably expecting this last weekend, but I had a blast riding out in California with Supporter Club Tyler Wren. Anyway—I have another one of these to churn out, so no lengthy preambling. Enjoy! [click for iPad/iPhone/download]...

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Cosmo you have outdone yourself again. All my work colleges and now looking strangle at me as I wipe food off my screen which was placed there by me trying to hold back a laugh from a number of quips in a row.
Again thank you for these insights and please keep it coming.

Careful, man—I’ve been getting overrun with spam lately. Almost flagged this post. Probably some deeper problem with the site that I’ll have to fix.

Vacation was great—awesome group, fantastic weather and climbs. Didn’t hit Diablo (rode it back in 2010, tho) but suffered thoroughly on a host leg-breakers in Sonoma and Marin. It’s gorgeous out there.

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If you’re gonna crash, crash like this. Only thing I don’t like is he tries to get his left arm out before the tuck and roll. Obviously, it’s all instinct at that point, but not sure this deserved the slightly derisive headshakes from Vanmarcke and Oss that it got just afterward.

Speaking of embedding, there’s always such trepidation is using the YouTube link. Will I have to swap it out in a few hours?

…unlike, say, the dudes uploading full, unedited copies of the broadcast coverage, who make no effort to minimize the impact of their video on the marketability of officially licensed offerings, cite their sources, add value beyond access, etc.

Not that it’s not awesome to be able to watch the full race—it totally is. My issue is that I seem to be *specifically* targeted by rightsholders, despite putting a fairly absurd effort into making sure my uploads meet the legal standard for Fair Use.